In Bimal Das Gupta’s art, time does not get caught in the tangles of history but flows seamlessly or stands still, above and beyond history. It was noted even earlier that for him, nature was a major theme Apart from being a theme, nature for him was history, the only history which almost assumed being eternity. He was the painter of the eternal which all too often was bypassed by the historian. Nature for him was the most consistent and the ever-present history.